Middle East crisis live: Iran warns US blockade of strait of Hormuz would violate ceasefire
Centcom says blockade of Iranian ports to begin at 10am ET; Iran’s negotiator says ‘we will not bow to threats’; oil prices rise. Follow the latest newsFull report: Trump says US will blockade strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks failPlaneloads of negotiators and too little time: US and Iran’s 21 hours of talksThe failure of negotiations to end the US-Israeli war against Iran has unleashed a barrage of starkly partisan political responses in the US, with leading Republicans calling for Donald Trump to “finish the job” while top Democrats warned that it would be disastrous for the president to resume hostilities.The former UN ambassador during Trump’s first presidency, Nikki Haley, led the Republican charge, telling CNN on Sunday that the current two-week ceasefire was a test of nerves. She said:This is like a game of chicken. It’s who caves first. The Iranian regime is hoping that Trump will cave. Today, he showed he’s not.”It would take 10,000 troops on the ground guarding a perimeter. We’d have to send special operators in, and the Iranians could then bomb their own facility, potentially trapping our troops.”We want to see the strait of Hormuz opened and with freedom of navigation taking place, so obviously, the lack of a resolution in the negotiations that took place on the weekend were disappointing.We want to see de-escalation and we want to see those negotiations resumed.” Continue reading...
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Centcom says blockade of Iranian ports to begin at 10am ET; Iran’s negotiator says ‘we will not bow to threats’; oil prices rise. Follow the latest news
Full report: Trump says US will blockade strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks fail
Planeloads of negotiators and too little time: US and Iran’s 21 hours of talks
The failure of negotiations to end the US-Israeli war against Iran has unleashed a barrage of starkly partisan political responses in the US, with leading Republicans calling for Donald Trump to “finish the job” while top Democrats warned that it would be disastrous for the president to resume hostilities.
The former UN ambassador during Trump’s first presidency, Nikki Haley, led the Republican charge, telling CNN on Sunday that the current two-week ceasefire was a test of nerves. She said:
This is like a game of chicken. It’s who caves first. The Iranian regime is hoping that Trump will cave. Today, he showed he’s not.”
It would take 10,000 troops on the ground guarding a perimeter. We’d have to send special operators in, and the Iranians could then bomb their own facility, potentially trapping our troops.”
We want to see the strait of Hormuz opened and with freedom of navigation taking place, so obviously, the lack of a resolution in the negotiations that took place on the weekend were disappointing.
We want to see de-escalation and we want to see those negotiations resumed.”
Continue reading...
